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commandi'a crew of mechanics for hie cars and private planes. He does not
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need a eellarman, because he orders the desired wine and champagne {rs all
parts of the world. But unlike his father, he is not satisfied with one _
chronicler only; he commands a pha1onxo£ highly paid and favoured star- . _ .
journalists who have to make sure that newspapers, magazines, radio and
television stations receive only those news that have been censored by him
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and s_considered newsworthy with re;ard-to his private life and his projects.'_ . _ x,
And he is not exactly modest. lt fletters his banal vanity to appear in the .
headlines as "Americas Prometheus". _ -
But not every reporter is welcome. He exercises control over who will
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be his favorite writer. Thus, he asked the West German scribbler Klaus 7
Harprecht to see him, invited him for a flight in his plane, and gave him
an exclusive interview during a flight over the Tennessee Valley. Barpprecht
had been recommended to Wernher von Braun by Bonn. He is the same who made the
pointed, but vain effort to~Hhitewash as e martyr the war criminal Walter
Schellenberg, group commander of the S.S., former espionage and sabotage chief
of Hitler and Himmler, The routine ejachlationa of Harper's pen were graciously
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approved by the hontaville Baron. As a result, the reader of the Federal
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f"Hernher von hraun has become the hero of the new world. Nobody is £or~ p
gettlné his German backgronnd, bot nobody hesitates to idolize him as ew~ c ,
shining euarantor of America's invincibility, hopes, and heritage for e better;
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" -= _ ,ganeinla, managers, and admiral; maka their kawtuw and who 1: bdliza by
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hé is cnnsidered phatogenic by Amarican televisian producers, aftar ex§gg§en¢ed" r ; ~ "
Hnllywaoé mske~u§ specialists coveted his harelig scar. _ V *
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itrange wa11.a£ silence araund his past and his amily. mu: 1nn5_aga, H.
Nevin B. Gun ran agginst this wall. His wideiy pubiicizeé rapes: in aha
?rankfurter Illuatrierten" was highlighted by the xemarka:
Tha best kept secrkt ei the rocket city Huntsvilla in he stat: e
Alabama is not the mnon buund Saturn racket, whizh is develmpa at the
adjaaant Reéanona Lrsenal, bun the exact addreas igi Whrnher van Brawn.
Eriva=y"rgpges high in the van Brawn £am1ly.V&s. Hhrie van Braun doas~not
participate id publi or official eénts. fhe racket expert éeclines slams:
ail interviews and rarely receives photo;rapheta in his homa. Ha arrangad with
Eh: Préia ffica at the Ary and athez press agedcies that an rapazta ané
potos of big children wiii ha publishz. Eu an: gets to enter hia hang;
withkt I apcciai reason - an even ggnéfl at the Department vi Baausn
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wag Biaqn. Gccasienally, the enciru familx driuas ta a rive-in mnvis haatex
whats due can stay in the car and a;ui contaet with ather peopla. .
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u an wish ta get inte the lineliwdc, Apparently, the Bnckat Baron does
nut feel can much at ease Ha wnuld like no maka others farget his past.
5§han I anarze ta became interested in ia persan, an article frum
lDueasaldurf acmracced my attention. A cerzain whine: Gong wrote ahuuc the
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"Prussian mi Huntsville" and uracularly wxotef
The onea aha heave $mer£ca~ citizens léava their gast behind; and
wernhar van Braunu appearance alsn xadiates sumthing which makes it easy H
" for the Aéricana ta say in te rreth The German Scientist and "The meriaan
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niced Stats: - an to speak ~ in erdcr to shed his akin, hq: nan so break_w1ch
his kearecy-veiled past. Since then, the thumbed bibles with tho torn pn3§:
in his desk and haduide table have hecoma part of his legend. But I wnateé an
know why far enamla in 19&5_his shuil-dccorate SS un&fbtm.had been i%§'
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To be csnsidereé the spiritual father of vaginua high ahituéa rbckets,
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and my curriculum vitae, I would u£' .6 the following publications:
- A' Heinz Gartmann "Herder von Ir he , KuZ;nquiu Publishers, Berlin; P
Erik Bergaust "Reaching for tie Stars , Doubleday & Co, Inc. Ga:de%;J
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Walter Dornberger "V 2", T"e 'iki:t Press, New York; -
Willi Ley Rockets, Missiles, 33¢ Space Travel", The Viking Press,1' sP_ New York also published in German!. ,
I would appreciate your taking the above statements in consideration
when you are writing the contemplated series oi articles.
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t I complied with the request of tne myth-possessed Wernber van Braun. But
since I also used other references, he couldlnot confuse me with his statements.
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village of Obetwiesenthal. Heavy, dusty roedaterl rolled through the valley,
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Neuckeniof the Order of the German Knights in East Prussia had served
four generetiona aa their beronial estate, the family represents centuries
old Silesian aristocracy. ......... For the von Brauna, centuries of rplinz
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in the pillaging'raida of their emperors part of their code of honor."
A lengthy illustration of the Opulent party and illustrioua guests,
all "representatives of the feudrl Qgstem" is given. Center of attractionn
is monocle carrying Col. Becker note: later Major General, Chief of Development
of the German Ordnance Dept.!. The conversation centers around "emperor,
war, and cannons . Host is Magnus von Braun, whose background is given ine <2~
an extremely slanted version. He is mentioned as former "President of the '
Police of the City of Stettin, who had machine guns turned on impoverished,
hungry workers and sailors and personally removed the red flag from the '
City Hall". In his government post in Berlin, his main concern is "how to
preserve the influence of the reactiongry and military junkers and industrial
barons and their means of suppressin; the working class. "Shrewd politicking
and maneuvrih broughzhim his appointment as representative of the big
landowners in the Central Committee of the Federal Bank.
After a long drinking session, Col. Becker and Hagnus von Braun discuss
the future of Hernher who makes poor grades at the Technical University of
Zuerich - where his father has no connections. Magnus von Breun inquires what
chances exist for a.career of his son in military rocketry. Becker! assuresL ~ - ¢_»4v.
him that Ckapt. Dornberger of his staff talks very favorably about ernher,
whom he met on the Rocket Yield Reinickendorf, and that ernher would have
1 promising future in the Army Ordnance Department, especially in view of
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Warnhni van Brnun calla back frn Euerich. After ch: 2ruas1nn parasites
haw: inkulged in exceasiva drinking , vamiting ingiuded , the heavy réadltari
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_ "This glans; inta-the u1t:a~raaat£onary nuxxary of Wernher van Brawn was
very important, because here are the rants o£_hin careully gunre seerat
ai Huntsville. In sh; sansared b1UU¥3ph;E$ of w§guhe: van Braun, nochingia
mantiunad about the true bankgrauud sf His rocket career. Far the pub1i¢_ .
nan mtivaa for his steep prefessianal career were inventeé to excite th
minds in the desired way and an keep the public frum knwwing the truth." _
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van Braun's'mothe: §nc0utagin3 her s0n'& interest in ascranamy an the
staxs, upan which Haz: comments as fellows:
"Aaie frwm aha agling w1:h'Ma:s, ma imparaanc act cf this faiiy tale
is tram. A harmless telascopa replaced deanhspewing cannans_Instea& Q
Prussian offiaern who saaxzed tiring with ri£§es,_msch£na guns, and
huwitzera upanfrranchmen,'Be1;ians, Yr tons, Qmarisana, Ru§ss£an:, ané
aven_:he1: awn cantrmen, the is; y, _;vnivua, and mothariy amateur aatrenuar
is offarad. Instasd af dangerous m 2i:v:y rmsket rujects, space resaarc
appearéd with cxystal clear humans objectives. , , .
Bu: avan aha mat cunnin writer aannat ¢¢m§1@:=1y fit humanism ané
Bruiiilnrtmln megalamania with iua xesulting milicarism unéer hc Qguaaian
pickat helmat. The idcqhEE:t_Hagnus won Braun wig his :haractn:is:i§ _
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aha shephe:&'a éemmand. Quoted fron Htunus van Brena: b1ogrsphy.}
vLet us tie on ta the faraibly Coustruei biblical allegery of the Eaten
van.$raun1 Just as the §avenens wolf does not &ecom@ a harmless vggecaxia,
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This chaptar brings details abauc the rocket activities an ch:
Rcckéc Fielé Rainickendarf and emphasizes the mnnapaly that the German
Ordnénce Departmant axercised. Ruéelf Hebe} is mentioned as stating that
his group is building 1 super rocket for the German army which will make
artitlery and bamberp1aues obsolete. . ' !
An QXCEQIiV§§V1ENf Tsiu1kovskys publicaticns an ideas is given,
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=11 <1?hiscary. Amn§§§%?§%¥%§2§§gerth is mentianed as having worked alyeady in T
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mass §n§1h11ltingwe8pnnI". éc¢urd;ng to Madar, nornharger adviged zhq
yaung iqn Brena in 1932 to beaemn u member af the hoaré ai diraccors n£ the
Saciety for 5p8GG travel in order no place a teyiabla informant amng :h;:
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of rocket production and a development trend which would have enabled
Germany to become a member of the 135st ; and respected rocket nationlg
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This chapter illustrates v*si: of Nagnus von Braun at Kummersdorf,
where he attends a successful static test firing. Nader goes to great length
to show Magnua von Braun as an imminent unxhl part of the NAZI,higwi3
finance group", who "supports aetidemocratic principles, favors the ascent to
power of the mass seducing Braunauer Hit1er!", is involved in corruption scandai
and brings his public career "to a shameful end in 1932, which does not -
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"xobbar knights and pilferera to become future fascist appressors".
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kn imact energy of at Iaas: S mhg is required co break human bones,
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bady ~ ;'1? mkg to break ané 35 n$; ta smash the bones of horses.
~W&rnhe: van Braun_£eund this cul, calculating manner quite impressive,
tha given destruacive forces, however, diaappéaxingly amail. His chéughns
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, 1candidate Wernher von Bram. - to It-e,5i.a with the subject of his 't_hea:I.a and
inéludtighie promotion - illvstrates the state of prcsitution that German
science already attained in 1'1?-!;'. ' "
1 The Federal Minister Ret.! 1?:-,;nc-"'5 von Braun had had quite some trhuhle< .
with his eon. Wernher even confessed this once: O
"I believe my school education was useless. I attended the French
Gymnasium in Berlin where only French was spoken .... My weakness was in _
the field of mathematics. But I flunked not only in mathematics, but also
in physics As reference Spandauer
Volksblatt, a West Berlin newspaper, date September 17, 1959, is given.!.
This prompted Magnua - of course without regard to additional costs -
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' Whether the mathematical-physical block in Wernher von Braun ever
vanished, is impossible to find out, even with the greatest effort, because
thef legendary 1ny.th' that he is promoting always veila this tore soot. It one
would trust the data of the west German Munzinger Archives, one would he »
. - -- _ ,_>.~.,.-~ . . ,,_ .fooledhy the following tale: ' ' A -. .
v .itvinjmlated by his mother, you Braun was already interested in astronomy
as child, read the books of rocket pioneer Oberth, and built firework rockets
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in mathematics and physics, able to digest Oberth's books already before
attending high school. Besides, this'version contradicts the'report of his
prote§¬ biographer Gartmann, who evidently makes Wernher von Braun read
Oberth only in 1930, after graduation. This was no} special accomplishmenth
whatsoever, since Hermann 0berth's book Pkoads To Space Trayel" requires-§ery
. r ~' ..l11==1¢ knowledge of mathematics and each student in the first semester can '
understand it without any effort. Y p
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Technical Universities Berlin and Zuerich as well as the Friedrich Wilhelm
University, the young baron had nothing more to show for than his pre-
examination. But of course, this did not matter. Professor Becker smoothed the
way tor his admission to the promotion exercises. On April 16, 193k, Wernher
von Braun handed Professor Becker the thesis which was supposed to'bring him
the_1ong desired doctor: cap. He had chosen a long, bombastic and non-
committal title: ' Constructive, Theoretical, and Experimental Contributions to
the Problem of Liquid Fuel Rockets.
__ If we use'this example as touchstone for the credibility of such personal
stories as the oneh written by Gartmann, who proclaima:'His imagination did p ¢
not know any limits. He was dreaming of and revelling in boundless spece_0 ,_. ' l
£li§htsf-- we cannot issue a certificate of true reporting to von Brena:
literary minnesingers. -' ' J
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century rockets were almost completely supersedes by heavy artillerly, .
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regain or even surpass the proéress of heavy artillery in range and flight
stability. Increase of firing range poses first the thermodynamic problem of
ef£icientlyusing high-energy fuels for rocket propulsion and second the
problem of well-designed lightweight construction. The increase in flight
stability and target accuracy, if an active guidance systemw1th gyroscopes
is used, becomes mainly a prob1e* of 4-;}precision mechanics. .......;..
n.--1 The future importance of lituié fuel rockets lies in reaching greater
ans greater distances, which cannot he reached in any other way and thus
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to puraue
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the intereat of Hitler's armed forces, we can only explain the often attempted
forging of the original purpose oi Hernher von Braun'a rocket research in
.NATO countriea by assuming that the now_American rocket engineer withheld
from his staff of vritera his first thesis, which shaped his career, orithat
gnored this thesis. .his biographera intentionally iBut this ia not all, the public has a right to hearfbouet the circumstances
Ovaurrounding this unusual exercise of conferring a doctor a degree. . pi
On February 21, l93&, Col. Professor Dr. Karl Emil Becker, accompanied
ntelligence Agency of the War Ministry, appeared in
the apartment of the Dean of the School of Philosophy of the Freidrich Wilhelntby a captain of the I
University, the philologiat Dr. Wilhelm Horn, Bayernallee 6, Berlin-Charlottene
burg.
. Becker imediately explained that they needed Dr. Horn'e help in a
pronotion_procedure-which had to be kept top secret in the interest of "
Germany. A certain candidate was supposed to be conferred 8 Eh. D. without
neither the staff of the Philosophical Faculty not the atudenta or outsiders
hearin§ about it. Hhila Becker talked, the captain of the Dlntelligenca
Service mechanically examined the study of Professor Horn. - e_ LQ 5 1 Horn voiced some objections against the unusual proposition. ttaupon Beck
<». >diapruntingly explained to him that the army Command had already obtained
the consent of the President of the University. Aa already mentioned, the J
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rochet_theaia and arranged for the twehty-two year old to receive his promotion
certificate on July 27, 1934, which authorized von Braun to carry the
title "Doctor of Philosophy . The certificate was signed by tresident Fischer
and Professor Horn. None of them ever saw one line of the doctor: thesi
' . a, _In fact, it actually was the Army, who clapped the doctor: cap on Wernher von .
Braun after giving it the highest grade "eximiu". Neither Prof. Fischer
nor Prof. Horn, but Major General Prof. Schumann, one of von Brena: W " ,~ .- . *2-'
milittry teachers, marked in the top secret university files: "
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Ministry for Science, Culture, and Education, the thesis is classified secret;
it is kept in the_£iles of the war Ministry, reerence Wa?rwZ Az 37
Dissertation von Braun " Constructive, Theoretical, and Experimental
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' hut the conspiratorial secrecy even went farther. The only document
that the Friedrich Wilhelm University presented to the title-crazy wornher
van Braun, the doctor's certificiate, contained e falsification. The hroa
suhjeet of the thesis was reduced to the insignificant formula On E£%in;'.. - . V K
Tests. Hernher von Braun had to put up with the feet that neither he nor his
"usthesis u:;o_inc1uded in the Yearly vnlletin of German Universities. Pinally,~ . i§¢_th¬ milita, <ln§e11i ence_§eI!i§JMajor General Schumann even gave orders 1§"re§ort imme£¥hte §7¬n§Lper§on
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thesis secret, although this was, one of the reasons, but to hide the anti-
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the problems of space travel, did not even use for his so-called thesis the
major internationally known space and rocket literature published by Professor
Ziolkovsky, whose writings are not even mentioned in the bibliography aux of
von Brauns dissertation. For Wernher von Braun, the genius Ziolkovsky was ,
A lfb. 1.-2% pa Russian, a Soviet of the lower races, assess of.4i%-creative achievements,
as Wernher von Braun wastaught at home, at school, and at the University.
In Soviet Russia at that time, young and'x:uazl enthusiastic scientists,-~_ . .
revered by all Soviet people, sts:r;J To solve the complex problems of
rocketry and space travel, while in Getmazy a small war-crazy group, claiming
monopoly as experts, stopped the rocket development that did not serve their
class-conscious goals. '
»1A glance into the German Patent E2g15tet reflects this process. in the
broad category of rockets and reaction type propulsion systems operated by
combuation gases the following ncnUer of patents w:=: registered in Germany:
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Dornberger - who in 193$ received an honorary doctor: degree from the Technical
University Berlin upon request of the Army - , and Wernher vonoBraun with
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find any support at all." .
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to the death of Dr. Kurt bhmke, one of the chiefs of the military robket
project. Made: emphasizes the ruthlessness nun of von Braun, who regsrdn chin
secidonr "with mixed feelings", because it removed one of his eompetiiorl. The
-Q * - _onli potential competitorlazill left, is Rudolf Nebeliand Made: imlies that.
von hraun is starting an ingenious intrigue against Nebel by blaming him as
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' caréias of nebility, imersed in class au r§§a snobism, ha already joiqed
Hit1§r's SS, the black blood or¬f.§£ §§zisz. Already at that tima, 261 §§mbera
af t§e nobility-balenge to she oiiicsra aurgs of the $5, among them seven _
princes and 59 barons. 260 timas the little woré "van" preceded tbs "
R classifications sf rank of SS group leaders, S3 brigade leaders etc. The .
extremist right U1¬f8'GEIw&u aB£1§$Y gazhered kerviiely areuné Hitler ané
Himler. The van Brauns were me: ni§sing.
_ Ihe Oberwiessnthal Bsranvgnus van Braun valsa danceé acaendanae in the xx:
staff uf the high-flown Reichsfuehrcr SS Heinrich Himmler. Kaving reached Q l
high age, Saran Hagan: van Btaun s.i11 regrets that ye parsonally talked ta
aha most brutal mass murderer af all times only once. with delight he recalls
their meeting: In thl disausaien he was exafneréinazily pnlice and showed
"92.gned m.a:merI.' either before or szer 3.9-1+5 icl Mqagnus van Braun have the
slightest objeatiens against the S3 organizeé iaueileetuai Hitlar fanatics. His
" approving jugmen; is summarized in the furmulc: The SS carad very much' ..
about imposing appanran¢e'. ~ %:J
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neuirulkrl in their brawn and biack glutq. Exknkx Thanks to these cannections
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in organizing and collectinb cont:.Lutiona than of his purely scientific
and technical accomplishments. ..... The fact_that his true strength was nut
in the technical field, but in pushing things, accepting set-backsand i§-
preparinn the ground, does not diminish his merits. Actually, it was not
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stated no more or no leaa that his first teacher was not accepted into the
Peenemuende team, because he lacked scientific and technical qualifications.
But he did not lose one word about the role the von Braun family played in
the intrigue against Nebel. To close the Eaton: lapse of memory, a
remarkably timely coincidence has to be mentioned. At the same time when
Nebel with his M.S. degree was fcrced to stay away from the German rocket
development,,tha young Wernher ttizd everything to become a member of the
SS.
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could one explain that he proudly displayed the insignia of I SS storm
troop leader during the war, a reek that commerce - if at all - to that oi
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concealed. Since ernher von Braun Lvutruntrd all his biographers to keep
strict silence on this shameful episode, and since the success-crazy writers
are anyhow afraid of the powers that are always noticeable behind Wernher
von raun, I had to look for trustnorthy witnesses from those dark days. V
A' A I found Dr. Wilhelm Lattemann, who was drafted intone key positioniin
the Nazi weapon research during the second world war. Dr. Leteemann wrote
me a_letter, in which the most decisive statements speak for themselves:-
'From'H. Lattemsnn, ' h November ll, 1962 '
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Dear Mr. under:
_....... From a key position as lahuratory chief, I was drafted to serve
in the Air Ministry and at the sane time in the FE? Forschung - Research,
Erprobung - Testing, Patents - Patents!. ..... I belonged to the FEB of the
Weapon SS and in this capacity I hnd to work on almost all development projects.
I had no contacts ukstssuusz with Wernher von Braun, I was only assigned to
investigate the case hebel from s scientific standpoint. To do this, I
visited Mr. Nebel in his home in Berlin, where we got into s frank discussion.
Frank17, I did not like the way in which Nehel had been put on ice. Ibis
opinion was not only based on my conversation.with Rebel, but espccislly on
studies o£ the documents that I received. It was well known to us that Hernher
von Brsun had st least the rank of an SS troop leader. .... ~
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Nebel's teacher, Prof. Herman Oberth, was also excluded from the German
rocket research, which proved tax; to be very advantageous for Werner von
Braun, because his knowledge and experience would never have been adequete
- to compete with Oberth. Although Professor Oberth begged from the faraway
' Rouhanian Mediasch to be allowed just to help design the war rocket of the
nazis, he was not called. The section of the Ordnance Department, comman6ec_». 5-'
by Colonel Becker, the friend of the vnn Braun family, declared that '0baf"
is 3 Roumanian citizen and therefore cannot be admitted to work on the
top secret development projects. Professor Oberth resigningly dictated
his chronicler:
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e with their foreign colleagues, din no longer or only evasively answer any
questions from foreign colleatuos, and the ties between the German and
foreign rocket experts brokc .... Tee curtain had gone down, but strangely
Dberth had remained outside. He wés not allowed to work on secret develdpment
projects. ' . ~
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' advancing a good deal. Hshmke was on his way to the grave, Rebel on-his way7:; <¢
to the dungeon, Oberth out of the country. The road leading to his presenting
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as téchnical directur oi the mos: speeulaciva uutertanking of its than
and put him in charge o£'the gian: nxperimencal ground: of death."
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. 3,»Iha opening paragraphs giva a vivié descr1§£1on mi aha hectic ag
activities to establish the Peenemuemde Racket Senter. Reference is maa
ta Heinrich Luebke, the present President af the Federal Rapublib c£
Germany, who worked for a £acilit1cs_p1awaing graupd and "established the
ma§e§ip1 basis {pt Hitler: averdi ;~# ¢ :1 acscacyi and shuffled armament
¬uns like mit .
Maa: breaks ?eenemuandv teaa inc@ zhree categnries with "diferent
actzibunians of guilt in praduciu; ¥in1era rackets. Firs: of all the
eonscicusleaa aliqua nreuné Qurnbergar an& vopBraun. Secondly, a wia
cirela of §E§éntisca and angineers, who efteu recognized rather early ah:
criminal character cf the untertaking, but had not aneugh courage ta 1eava@
Thirdly, the big group oi people aha had ca dgcide between aasignment ta,,
lthe fraht er to an armament xelated jab -_
fhrnhe: van Braan is shawn as gathering aucspaken fascists arauné him.
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plaéai himsclf a:.§he service of snzressurs. In ?eenamuende»ha_be1onged to
tha van Hraun circle an calculated crajactorias far Hitlar, an which
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a home country in the United States next to Wernher von Braun. Stuhlingar
asaunad-tho name "Mister Apex" and ia,computing with his worn-out'abaci ;
new naaa murders. The terror,that he helps to sptread, has become hia A
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. 1 J v/ , .follows, including Eberhard Rees, Walter Riedel, Dr. Walter Thiel,
- v. - ¢ _Arthur Rudolph, Dr. Rudolf Hermann; Dr. Hermann Kurzweg, ludwig Roth,
Dr. Standing, Prof. Buchhold, Prof. Vieweg, Dr. Sceinhoff etc. Mader H
cell them "perfidioua fanatics and aggressive rocketeers, bent on murderg,* a . an... '»v .¢~ > Y .
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l Hitler ia shown in November 1937 as discussing with his general; the
concept of the next war, while von Braun, firmly settled in Peenemuende
and trying to keep Oberth out of the rocket conclave, arranges for him to
teach at the Technical University of Vienna. Oberth 1eave$Rouania for
Vienna and becomes a traitor of his country".
After Hit1er'a return from the invaded 2¢ha_Cz1echoslovakia, he wants
to inspect_hia "arsenal of victorious weapons" and visits the
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Wernher von Braun in shown as convincing Hitler of the necessity to have
rothet weapons for hi! "conquest of the world. Well chosen party platitudes fr:
the hectic repertoire of the 10th Party Day in Nuremberg, mixed with ,
.==.£¢gi= apaculationa and a minimru of technical data servilely praagntad,
did not tail to achieve the calculwted effect. The_£ol1owin3 static firing.. .
remained just a thundering state pxop".
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family is truly elated". Sigismund von Braun, "the former spy apprentice under
the ettechirnmsk at the Hitler Embassy in Paris", has been appointed to the
haste: race staff of the General Consplate in Addie abebba, where he is
enjoying life inea fasctist-occupied nfrican state". The youngest brother
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Magnus is studying chemistry "to it if-e to join the armament production.
on the home front". Wernher vow Rraz. £1 enjeying another success. The V
*. ,,"brown and Braun rocket proaram " gets top priority and thus, for Wernher'von
Brahn, the sluice gates are opc~eé for enormous resources in money, material,
and manpower at a time "when the Gcruar people have to be grateful for
rations of ounces of preserves and coffee ersntz".
A Report is Reaching Qsloi
Moder describes in details his efforts to clarify the secrets of the -
Oslo report, an anonymous letter depicting Peenemuende projects, German
radar development etc.; letter had Ween dropped into mailbox of English
Embassy at bale in October 39. At great lengtn, Rngiix statement of British
official is quoted who testified that he received such a report in November 39,
but that sender cooled never be identified , in spite of all efforts of the
British Secret Service. Nader claims after personal investigations, that it is
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almost certain that Dr. Hans Heinrich Kummerow, an anti-fascist, who refused to_ 1 -tost s+ CWvv1avv92¢r92i _support the t development through his work and inventions, was
sender of this letter. Kummerow and his wife, both inspired by the ideals -
of en democratic, peace-loving Germany, are shown working against the nazis
and ending in a concentration camp. However, no proof whatsoever for these
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idealistic , suffering Kbmmerow with "fascist playboy type von Brena", A
"While the 30 year old sun-tanned and carefree von Braun is cruising
in his luxury yacht on the Baltic, fascist torturera are thrashing the pale
Dr. Kummerow after dragging him out of his dark cell.
While von Braun lets his infatuated secretary , Hannelore Bannaech,
warm his blood, the vociferations of the Gestapo investigators are shocking
. - Fmthe young mother Inge Kbmerow, whom they force to face the glaring i
floodlights. _
While van Braun on his business trips is frequenting questionable
apartments with his psrttinm fiancee, the capricious Dorothee Brill, the Q
separated Kummerowa are trembling Life of their children and
that of membera_of their famzly eve @:n& Zrhnds.
While von Braun lets Champagne toztles pop in a victory-confident cercle,
plain potatoes already were a treat ior Dr. Kemmerow, imprisoned in a moist
cell.
_The German people produced a Vernher von Breun, who - as he proved later -
was alwayaéilling to sell his nationality for egoistie motives, but it also
produced a Dr. Knmmerow, who sacrificed his life for a happy future of Germany."
f ;A list of German people follows, who are prosecuted and shipped to
concentration camps because they fought against fascism. Execution of the
ummerous is described and Nader blames the NATO powers for filling pages with
. 0 painful glorification: of Hernher van Braun", but not making any efforts to
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biog3§§hy, which arc taken nut of cnqxext, Méer describes tha fanatic Ii:
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réids, suicide of Latent. General §rof. Beker, the impassibility to
conquer Engian by air tn.apiae of rising airplane prnctin aaa. with
icgeasing lasses of ah: German Air Farce, mre and mars emphasis is put?
$9an.ia:k§t praduatian in spite of ividéd apinian an their usaiulness in*g
Hitler; staff. "Neither Hitler mar Himler nor Nkrnher van Braun wera ever
néh§étnad with defending German air space and the German urban §apu1atian-
agaihst Sng11ah~Amer1can bombe: attacks, but only with the fine} victory of the
war. The von Braun racket was designed, tesceé, pampered, an prnmoted as an
aggressive weapnn cf tha fascists ..*..".
' While ?een&muende budge: is rising ta 156 miilinn marks abaut
40 million dallars! in 19&2, Wernher van Braun is xhawn as the organizer,
wha never mastered mathematics and physics, but knew how ta usa his elbuws
and haw ca promise unactupulausly early re5u1t8.i
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Teéhnical ifiiaultiea and slaw prugtei af the racket program ax;
shawn. In spite of the fact that 0 Ry uav in can launching: succecdsh
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Hit1a£a Heaéquarter at Hhlfssehansa. Aiter Lriefing by van BIGUR, Hill
is as imgressad-by the suggestive powars cf weznhér van Braua as 1a:a:~oa
Athe Pentagén generals nra"; Hernhvv v "iuu a rackat prugram reaeiven
higheét priority. Wand that at a ti: ~~irb Q38 judged by Maia: General
arnhergar ai fallcwsa yin
_The military situation in nhe middle oi 1§i3 was non longer such that
the firing of 300 V 25 per mn1:h wizh s yayload a one tan, covering a '
distance of 165 miles, emuld cermirwte a warld war qf aha than annaineé
scape
In viw uf this insight, whet could aha rocket fanatics acually achieve!
The raply can uniy be: Haas murder of tha creign civilian population,
mass iarrar in the lines nf Hia1ar*s averssries. .......
The mass murder concept ei the fascists was ttansfermd inta techniaal
imensiqna by Wernher van Braun. ne_nazi scientist invented the uyclau B
us suffoaate hund;e& thousands ef gaaple in gas chambers, others created
Hit1era war rackets to mutilate hundre thmusanda of people abroad."
+_&s "faithful maxi fnllawer", wernher van.Brauu reaeivas the titia
"P:cfesao; by personal decree cf Hitler. Chaptar finishes with cumparisan
sf "$5 wander weapcn.b1acksmich Hernhar van Braun, wha §n,$%er1¢l pu5hid
h1ms§1£ intn tha limalight and is haunted by the hire e1:pgersLe£ RQTO
wit éhi human qualititau of the xesissgaca figtfrg who were ra1§§§1c0n1y
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Efforts of rolish and French resistance to obtain intelligence Information
n reenemuende are vividly illustrated. Members of French Marco Polo Organizatioa
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transmit available data to London. Their members are prosecuted by the Gestapo
, . ' . German Secret Police!. '
I "The Gestapo raved like madman in the torture dungeons, Resistance,xv"-.1 .1 -,fighters and completely innocent, but suspected persons broke down under
their blows. The hands of the prisoners were tied to their right lee. Then
they were thrown on the floor and flogged. Whenever they fainted, the
torturers would pour buckets full of cold water in their faces. Other
prosecutors employed even more brutal methods to press a statement. The
barbarians of the 20th century went so far as to use electricity for
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' They fastened a wire around the legs of their hinsisnn, took a second --
urned on the electricity and touchedvarioua parts oi the body with thewire, t
free end Qf the second wire!.The tortured screamed in pain. French women,. ___ ,
their arms tied behind them, were suspended by their hands unti1_their
shoulder joints here dislocated. with razor blades the Gestapo bulla cut the
solea of the prisoners and forced them to walk on salt. ' _
iii The torturing was worse in those cases when the Germans did not have
any exact ideas about the type of information to be gathered and thua_' - ' ?$?'§tortured people at random, later stated under oath M. Olayea, who himself
experienced these crueltiea. ~ ' .
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This chapter gives an account o - sh air raid on Peenemuendq.
and the extent of the damage, which deis;ed*mass_ production of V2: £or,§¢
at least six months".
Three paragraphs in this Cbap er contain accusations against Heinrich
Luetke, a facilities plsnnin oifitial note: now President of the West
German Federal Republic !, who id blamed for prodfascist activities and
capitalistic profiteering.
Numbersmas Witnesses._
This chapter brings exte;sive éocvnentation on the profits and
outpot of German "ca§ita1ist;c imdtstflal concerns, involved in
armament and rocket production.
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pick up vital racket parts to be inv§atigateé~&n.Londoa is given. ~
huiéanaa ailuza causes one V 3 tr iané in Swedsn. Thu neutral
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On Saptembef 7, 1344, the :i~e had aome: u: toys beeama a weapon of
destruction. The first Y 2 was fired Exam Ben Hang.
Hitlar, Himler, and van Braun arranged far the daplayment of this
mas: éestructian weapaa at a time, when it became dbvioua rm each thinking
persnn that the faééist aggrassora wauld be aha losers o the war."
Details of éestruction saused by V 1 and ¥ 2 firings against Engiand,
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an Ha11an3 are repartgd, alsn English e§£ar¬s to iefsnd against these
attaaka.
J he Britons ha hardly nvercomn the first shock, cause by tha German
uingéé tnakixn bombs, whan Hitler suarced to depluy his halliatic A Q rackets,
zhe~§:n3can;a Weapon V 2. Hexnhar van E:aun's day cf triumph had cant; Es hsé
au::§a&n3 in being chm firs: chief designer oi mass éaasruenivo zock§g¬-
weapunn. Ealitiualiy, he was fully aware cf the imurtanca oi this fan!
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12.009 English Ind Balgian citizew an made can thousands miaarabla far the
rest of that: Iii: by lnfiiutiug c»rr£*1e injuria§ ugen tham. Thil railt
af his war research was 1nevitab1e,.aF£act, whisk aha Racket Eaton realized fram
the beginning» n served mass murder and Hirlex awardeé him the knight: cross
ta t$e area: mi merit with awards, a rare henna presentaé exalusively by
Hitler far speaiai services rendered ta &he military cnmmané. this was
¢ . -.-2, , 219&h@ just an Christmas! " _ <5 , *"
Q 86 far, the German public was never informed officially a ch: names
of the mass muréereti, who ~ five minutgs to twelve were so secretly
hanu}ad by Hitler, beaaue tbday these Hitler haiberdiers are employad by -
the American government at American moaopolies, nut only Wérnhar won Btaun,
the mystery c1oaked7Huntsv£l1ian. Tngethef with him, the Nazi Doetars
Heinz Stuhiingay and whiter Dornharger - who at the aam time received a
special premoticn tn Lieut._G§nera1 were preienteé tbs nluaé Guilt Qrder .
?A1ao these are growing numhezsnf crosses, although aha yratectiun ei
not publishing the namen, which Hitler granted ti his favorita weapen
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das1gners,1a still anxiously kept up by the &h£ef of thy cantral files
of the Bann Federal érchivea, Rudolf Absnlan. Buc_as we can see, nathing
was ' A it spqn an finaiy by Hitler and his gann heirs that it wuuld net coma ta
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his father Hagan: van Braun, who - probably snuiikiksgx unintentianallg ~L
.',.-. ¢¢and§§ned his son with the anatementz *
I ff A criminal kill: ans yersen, a fanatic millions. " . e
1 i§ut Hhgnus van Braun immadiately lucked for I raasan to nxause hi; kin.
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in the first world war -, move into France, Bclgiu, and Russia to murder
and pillage!
- Did not then the Major Friedrich vou Braun introduce the wonder weapon
I.of his time, the machine gun, into the Prussian rabher's army? i
Did not Siegfried van Braun and his Guard Field Artillery demolish
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Did not Magnus van Brqpn rudely ijnore all peace offers of the young
Soviet state and start the pillagirg move ta Petersburgl
At the side of their emperor. also the van Brauns had pushed the
German people into the catastrophe of LHL first world war, the end of
which was sealed by the imperialistic powers in Versailles.
'And after their war was last, the von Brauns did everything to break the.
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and xuppiiad them with toys, as wernher van Brsun called the murderous *
racketer
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even millions of people ta promote their caste and class interestfa, jest as
the van Braun offspring Hernher. The victims of the first and even more at the
second world war numbered millions. The van Braunswere amng those, far
whom not enough blood could be shed. At the end of the first World War,
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' ' Grasses ware the result. The van Btiuns in aha raw: of war mwherers
Ind wa§ pznfitaers, scrambled for imperial ruyal iren and Hitler; V
kn1gzs* crosses; for the p1aguedLpgcp1e, the wonden creases weze che:e.f%Ve ,. ' I a <Capita1iat1¢,prafit}a of V I and V 2 contractors are describeé, also
H1m1ar's afnrts an make 1 truae an tha western front in arder to concentrate
fighting power against seviecla Rusaia. Facts are mingled wink sniping
acta¢ks'an Ghurchill, Duncan Sandys, and Ituman, who would have "loved to
mmka a uraaty with the SS", but ceuid nut are present such 1 propasition to
their paapla. Short reference is maée ta plans af using manned V ls against
strategic paints in enemy territary.
Chapter also brings cammenca dn.Peenemuende achievemanta item a number
ai pieple. Made: riéiculea those who claim than the deployment a unnde:
weapans just cams toe iate to ha c decisive gnfluenae.
i Qhccofding :0 the views of the nee-speculators, Hernher van Braun did
not n day wrong in casting his lo: with the faseiatn, already at Hitler's
rise to gases; an in promising them solemnly ca supply a wondar Va8pQn fat
theit'wer1d conquest. Thane peapla just regret than he di not succec-any
earlier. 6: in athar wards, they regret than not more Britons, Baigiana.
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idealegic axpressiun cf new rocka: adventu:as,*p1nnne for even greaer
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-"Snake réan fxum the stec@s c; 2%» :r0nv?er1um in the cuncentratian -. . . 5.camp Bunhenwald. It shawaé that thii Eascist death mill was working w1¬#*
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from two éazen natians, 05 their :1 hrs, put them behind barbed wires. The
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executinners than trie ta remcve the carpses. They dié not wan: anything
left o£'thei: victims but scaccered human ashes and wind blown smnke. The SS
craad» camp inmates to burn pi1es of cerpses, and than ~ periodinally ~
the SS also burn: xk::u.the memhers_u£ theae exection comada.
Hassagea far ch: resistance groups are smuggled in and gut ai the
eancentrhtionéeamgf In the dirty Eazdagas of a mutilated corpse, reports
1 -.an :ha'unéergrouud ni factory axe Sound. Geldmna oi yrisonars disagpear in
tha unergreund gailaxiea to wark there and thausapds of than megs: see the
sunlight again. _.
£most.gruaaoms report on warking and living condition; in ne undQr~
groud»£nctary fniluwl. Lnéwig Lniuaehar, ans oi the ew German ptiiu§a£u,
" Q . »- -uh§ iurvivad thu hotter, is quane as iellows: ~ ,f§ '
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Buchénwald ta DORA nuts: 563$ is cad: nae iar undergrqund ramket fuatciy!.
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a pillow. It was not cold in cke s6-called sleeping tunnel, but dusty, and
one could hardly recognize the ones marching in front. .
All of a sudden, I was awokeweé by a fierce shooting. The air pressure,
that had hue developed from detonstions, extinguishedour lights. The mountain
burst asunder, and drizzling water and rolling rocks gave the entire scene
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machines and concrete mixers. what zonditionsl No water, no sanitary
acilities, only a few carbide drama with n board on top as toilet; they
were placed in front of the sleepin, tunnel and gave ofi e pestilential
odor. Here and there stumbling skeletons, as I had never seen in any other
camp. I had gathered quite some exyerience in building camps, but what I saw
here, surpassed all imagination ..... »
orner ' in .The search for missing prisoners usually ended by £indi:§'t§:§Yd§EE*,
from starvation. It is e faetzkthet many corpses of prisoners were immured
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i with regard to the unsutpasseble brutality of the SS guards, especially
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to put his hand on the track hviore an oncoming train. when the hand was A
sheared off, Puater remarked sadiutLcully:'Now you can put your hand in the
pocket, you swine! _ » ' .
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Prdnnh anti-fascists called 502$ the camezgry of aha French.
its dead at half-dead immured became the accu:se'symbo1 a£ aha -
undergreund QS wonder wgapon doma. Ehe Nazis put disregasd fbr human livei
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lives was E; failaw ft the and of the balliatie pa§h af their rackets, ...@.
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A: the source cf undescr£hs,;¢ su'?erings and fabulaua profits, at
tha_canter of thase facts, the van 3ra@; family appeared nu: by chance.
The aightyfour yea: aid heaé éf the family Mngnua van Braun, new revelling
in the scare of Bonn, tried to cave: everything with aha cloth of silence:
It is charactaristic that far example we khew vefy little abeu: what
happenend in qpe concetration camps. . ~
But it is highly improbable that his two sons wefnhgr and sgnus always
fa11aued,t§e1r SS promiée of-aiience, EVER in the clasest family circle.
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and did not anly see theatrocicies, but even revellad in them. Their hj§:c:£c
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-tend my meeting with the chief designer of the V 2 rockets, Professor
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e'1! Towards the end of February or beginning of March 1944, officers of
the so-called board of directors of Mittelbau" yisited the camp DORA
for the first time during an official visit oflepresentatives of the
Air Force. They were accompanied by the chief of the rocket production
facilities, Prof. Hernher von Braun. He _showed up at thattime in his' ¢ |
. brown gala uniform.! . '
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facilities, section U-3' and of other groups who had access to the ma!
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dz Wernhar von Braun, who today commands a company of writers, who lavas
nothing better than fabricated popularity, the Rocket Baron, who ainca l9k5
replied to, thousands at questions in hi s typical saucy way, remained allow:
to the very precise queation, which wax cperiy addressed to him. The Polis:
antiefascist and concentration camp innate Adam Cabala, who had been »
tyrannized by him, formulated this question on Dee 14, 1957, as £o11wa,§w'
even helping uunxktasa to refresh the mém0.£y of the busy American rocket man:
2 But also the German scientisrs, Buried by Professor Wernher von Braun,
saw daily what was going on. when hey passed through the halls, they saw the
slavery of the prisoners, their w:»tehed laboring, and their suffrancea.
During his frequent presenarnt Edi , Professor Wernher von Braun did not once
protest against the cruelty and a:;ccities. Several times he passed at the
entrance of tunnel 36. Six meter long rotten planks covered three fourth of
the area. At the end of the hall ... the most infamous act of DORA was taking
place. In a small area adjoining the ambulance shed, piles of prisoners
accumulatedxhily. The prisoners had been tortured to death by thcyoke of
labor and the terror of the rcvengeful supervisors.
From afar, the human Corpses looked like a bis mass. But Professor '
Wernher von Braun passed by, so clove}; that he almst touched the corpses.
Should this sight have not made kswy impression on him at all? T
' 'Ivan the prisoners were terrified about this corner of horror. its people
gotcaazk sick, they vomited, fainted. Put the dying of the prisoners was not,
even as terrible asitheir condition after death. Professor Wernher von
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question, because so for no one aszed him this question. Therefore I an
asking him as the first: '
.0_ Why am he keep silent?_ _
I If Nernher von Braun would truthfully answer this question, an _
important part of his carefully guarded secret of Huntsville would be revealed.
But also his consistent silence can be considered a reply.'"
While the prisoners are suffering in the lice and flea infested
catacombs, von Braun and the party bigwigs are shown, celebrating champagne
orgies with actresses and prostitutes; Gala celebration takes place on the
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Among the prisoners, Moder shows a dedicated German communist who is
working for thefresistance against the Nazis. It is Albert Kuntz, who
organizesnational prisoner groups which are'collecting valuable data on
guidance systems etc., and manage to build a transmitter, with which messases
are sent out. Sabotage instructions are carefully circulated and recommendations
¢ .made how to slow up production or cause failures. Misfirings multiply and
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" ?ru£easar won Braun also was an eye witneaa co the exaanutian af A
priaen§rs whn were hanged in front nf building 39. Far this purpnse, in electri
cra§e, athexwiae meant so 11$: and tran$§0rt V 2:, wan used; ha axacuzlons cg
te tfacka at the entrance d buiidig 39 were nfcen a:tende&'hy_msny_a£';he
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the prisoners. Thny finally de:e¢: many rastance fighters who at: :ox§g§e@
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aggrkssars is finally acoppadgabecause oi th intarnatianai class salidax;a
an the organized anaifascist resistance. l
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Nader desuribea the landiq, twu SS spies in the U.S., Ihey were
chasen.fo: the follawing misrioz: _
1! Frovida f8i*guid%u:@ to ?ri»z fascist super rackets inta the
_ cgpte: af Haw York. -
_' 2! Espianage in atamic bemh prouccicn.
I" 3} Uhéermining U.$- efensa industry h?~sabotage trea§a fram Sauth
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- _ Hhilje spies are xx readying a new type oi haming evien, van Brian is
ahowh wcrking an pléna far intétacwtinental missile A QIA 10 to shack_:ha
Amerjsan pupuiazian. First Eust lwu china of A 9lA_10 racket £111! an Jln 8,
19§S; an SS spies are caugha hy che Yul. aévancing troops of the and Army
an the Eastern franc make realizatiun mi iacercantinantal racket: impassible
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prooised gold, is brooding until the last minute on how to blackmail the '
Americans with his rockets. _ -~
' ll£ we had captured hid in l94S','the well known British producer J. Lee
Thonpson on; stated, we would have put him to tr: trial. And perhaps he
would hove been hanged! ' y _
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while shooting the German-American monster £ilnWernher von Braun - I aim- ,
at the Stars '. In this film the audience is kept from seeing that Wernher von
Brsuniprimerily wanted to kill Britons and Belgians and even slaughter
Americsn civilians. This is why Lee Thompson was not the only Briton
who thought 6O.'"
Bimmlerfs Order: Esoane;
The story thst ernher von Braun and his group decided by themselves
to move to the West, is branded as a lie. Moder claims that Himmhr ordered
evacuation of ?eenemuende end personally approved transfer of personnel
and instsllations snd the use of 3009 trucks for the evacuation, while0 ' .
refugees from East Germany were on the roads without milk for their bsbies
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by von'Brsun in the black uniform of an honorary troop leader, with the
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group settles and works at Nordh:uts' ratil April 45, when new orders for
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is given. Dornberger and his rocket experts escape to Oberjoch, where "upon
running short on liquor", they decide to surrender to the Americans.
- "Magnus von Braun, Sr., lateron talked about the ideas which prompted his
: SS organized son to trim hil sails to the western wind: ~ -
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. !§',.... . -1.-e- any chance to continue their work in Germany, and from our previous enemies
America appealed to them the most - in a human, political, and hustness-like
way. ' _ '
. ,t eAfter the death oi their benefactor, Germany was no longer a place to
work for Von Braun and his fellows. This is significant. ".
_' The U.S. appealed to Wernher vonehraun in a human way. But hundred days
before his registration in the American offices at the Tyrolean village Reutte,
he wanted to terrorize the now human hosts, especially the citizens of
New York, with his giant rockets.
The U.S. appeared to Wernher ' J7 s most acceptable politically.
But hundred days ago he had 1o; ;<" ;c:in unturned to earn Hitler: gold,
. new nazi titles, and honors for bri»3i=5 the Lmeriean political system to
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'_For an SS troop leader this was quite a remarkably sudden, but ill-
' disguised change of mind. wernher van Braun soon noticed that the shallow
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the individual citizen do under those circunntanceai Can he escape or _
should he stay at his post? I decided to stay.
t _Forgot¬en were the murderous attacks against the rocket pioneer Nehel,
his own eager efforts for the Armed Forces, his servility to Hitler, the ~
i _ 4 0 'dead mothers and babies in LOnd?An:werp, liege, and Remagen, the piles of
corpses at DORA, the electric cranes of his rocket plant which served as
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the morose enemy of peace, the hauéhty cynic who despises men, the aggressive
militarist. ..... . I
he wanted thousands, hundred thousands, even millions to die, hut he
feared justice like the devil the holy water. He sold himself to Hitler
without wanting to stand up for his crimes. He carried the sam uniform as»
Himmler, hut wanted to be considered a pure scientist. He pushed the German
people into misery, deep guilt, and then, loaded with disgrace and shame, he
escaped to the U.S. Thus he was tested by history and found nationally .
pernicious andLinternstionelly dangerous." I -
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Jesuit professor at Georgetown University, who - before his emigration to '1 . .;, .
the 0.8. 5 hld worked together with Magnus von Braun} Sr., to repeal n lea
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to the U.S. instead of lettlrq them stand trial. _ 92
..HHernher von Braun and his followers did not chose democracy an §;_
freedom, but Hall Street dollars and Pentagon sponsorship for the continuation
of their dangerous projects.
with Wernher von Braun these circles of; the u.s. did not just bring
the rocket business to the U.S. or rocket weapons to the American armed fI _
forces, but they also brought the fascist ideology to Washington. ..... Y
Hitler's, Himmler's, and Canaris' Secret Service had once put a tight
band of silence around Peenemueade. Today the American Secret Skrvice is' ~ A
following in their foorsteps. Under their protection, two of the most dangerous9 .
m858 annihilating weapons, developed hy the imperialistic states during the
second world war, were combined as a deadly menace to those people who are
not willing to surrender to the world dictatorship of the U.$. And already
wernher von Braun has the nerve to eulogize his new project: The world shall
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be governed by the U.S. by means of a space station equipped with
nuclear bombs.
His quest for power and that of his financial backers has always moved
along phantaatic paths, for nhich the war projects and war rockets designed
and produced under their supervision lacked technical £eaaibility.Thus,
Nernher_von Braun is not only the :
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Baron always felt at home in the treading grounds of mass murder, in the
sealed off areas of extreme milirerlats and a;3reasive imerislists.
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